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Hello and welcome to your radical questions, where I put your questions to one of our

brilliant radical guests. And this is your chance to engage very directly and really connect

with the super smart, interesting people that we have on this podcast and ask them

about their ideas for the future. We are thrilled, thrilled with how you've responded so far.

Thank you so much for all of you who've been in touch, which is a lot of people.

In this episode, we're going to put your questions to the chef, author and campaigner Jamie

Oliver, who's recently written a book called

Eat Yourself Healthy, and who's just been telling me what he thinks Britain is getting wrong,

not just wrong, but badly wrong today. Jamie, are you feeling ready for some questions

from our listeners? Yes, sir. Let's do it. All right, this one, in the interview we've just done,

which people can go back and listen to at their leisure, you talked about why you're very concerned about obesity in Britain, and that is a concern that is shared

by one of our listeners who sent this in. Dear Amol and Jamie, my name is P.T. I'm a UK-trained

gastroenterologist currently working in Melbourne, Australia. I'm a huge fan of both the radical podcast

and of Jamie's school dinners, which I watched as a teenager.

The obesity crisis has long concerned me as I see it on the sharp end.

It is killing people early,

and I'm witnessing its consequences in ever younger adults.

How can we effectively legislate

to restrict availability and marketing

of ultra-processed foods, including limiting the number of fast food outlets, restricting marketing

aimed at children, having mandatory front-of-pack health care warnings, and introducing tax

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